A lot of coordinators don't make the transition from coordinator to head coach. Sean McBae checked all those boxes in the biggest question with Sean was, is he too young? The one thing that really tipped us and said, all right, let's shoot the cannonball for Sean would be when we chatted with players that he coached each one of them to a tee articulated back to us. And then we ended up pairing shown with Marshall Falk at a dinner with our owner,. Stan Cronkey so Marshall Falk was a long time St. Louis Ram legend back in the greatest show on turf but knowing Marshall, Marshall's a very intelligent football player. So for him the respect you and
LA Rams General Manager Les Snead dives deep into some of the strategies that made the Rams a Super Bowl Champion, including assessing character, how to draft the right player, the complicated nature of trading players, how to build a team, hiring the right coach, hidden performance, why it’s so important to be relentlessly curious, and so much more. A native of football-crazed Eufaula, Alabama, Snead served as a graduate assistant at Auburn University before he spent 14 years as an NFL scout for the Jacksonville Jaguars and Atlanta Falcons. He became the Rams’ GM in 2012 and over time built a reputation as an executive willing to make insightful draft picks as well as blockbuster trades, including his move to draft future Hall of Famer Aaron Donald in 2014 and to trade for superstars Von Miller and Matthew Stafford on the way to winning the Super Bowl in February.
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